This hits home because I just got custody of my gay niece from Florida. (I’m not sure if it’s much better in TN with me.). She asked me last night why I cared about politics. I explained to her that my votes now shape her life for when she is an adult. I try to use that reframing with all my conservative friends. It’s not about me, it’s about her.
Empathy really seems to be the main divider of leftist vs cons (conservatives.) Leftists care about other people. They want to make the world better for everyone. Cons dont.
If your Tennessee is like the rural Tennessee town I live in... They don't care.
It's a shame really.. these people here in my town absolutely vote against their own interests and then tell you you're a tool / mouthpiece of the devil if you attempt to introduce actual fact into the conversation.
Blows my mind how limited people tolerate of themselves.
Yeah, not sure what you'd even talk about if you can't mention anatomy or contraception. I guess it's good that there's the internet where you can look stuff up nowadays, but it's still messed up.
In case no one else noticed in Florida, people are going to have sex no matter what. Not telling them how to do it safely is kind of like telling all your pilots they can't have training, but knowing full well they will still fly the planes.
You're giving them too much credit, I'd say. It's hard to tell if this is 5d chess towards a conservative wet dream or just the usual christofascist nonsense. It sounds a lot like abstinence-only education, which has been a failing strategy from the Right forever.
Boeing enters the chat. I'm aware its not a 1-to-1 analogy, but union busting, deregulation, and generally just shitting on education so voters vote against their own self interest I would guess has caused planes to fall out of the sky...
I'm not from the US but everytime I read Florida and DeSantis I am ready for the content and I know it is going to be interesting.
I mean, Florida has people who race away from cops and hide cocaine up the nose. It's a wild state.
People from my country really go on vacation to florida to experience this. Walmart is a highlight.
To be fair, a lot of the other states are just as bad, if not worse. Florida just has some laws that make criminal activity open record so that stuff goes straight to the news.
Yeah, there are booklets you can buy every week/month (I forget which it's been awhile) that is nothing but the latest arrest photos and crime.
I don't know of any other state that does that. That's the reason why "Florida man" exists as a meme. But all those crimes happen everywhere else too. In other states and other countries.
This is what people who are sexual abusers do to prevent their victims from having the knowledge to understand what's happening to them and that it's wrong.
Idk about everywhere else but incest is rampant in the South. The problems resulting is readily apparent, in the offspring of this horrible practice. I'll never forget two adult children of incest I know who told me things I won't repeat here, for their privacy, but the psychological issues and desire for patricide are palpable.
So what the fuck do they even talk about then? I mean when I was in school my sex ed was 100% just one day on VD, but even they had to mention Anatomy.
It also had a video showing how horrific (a normal, healthy) childbirth actually is for my class. Need a lot more of that. Your average adult woman doesn't even know.
Okay,.it's time.to start investigating these people for sex crimes. Whenever weird shit like this happens, it's almost always the people involved projecting way too hard.